PTI
WASHINGTON
“Amb @NavtejSarna convyd r deep concerns to US Gov on recent tragic incidents involving Hardish Patel & Deep Rai,” Embassy of India in Washington tweeted on Sunday.
“Amb @NavtejSarna underlined need to prevent such incidents and protect Indian community,” it said in another tweet.
Patel, 43, Indian-origin store owner in the US was shot dead outside his home on Thursday, just days after an Indian engineer was killed in Kansas in a hate crime shooting that had sent shockwaves across the country.
In another incident, 39-yr-old Sikh man, Deep Rai, in US was shot outside his home by a partially-masked gunman who shouted “go back to your own country”, in a suspected hate crime.
The Sikh man, identified as US national Deep Rai, was working on his vehicle outside his home in Kent, Washington, on Friday when he was approached by a stranger, who walked up to his home’s driveway.
Kent police said an argument broke out between the two men, with Rai saying the suspect made statements like “go back to your own country”. The unidentified man then shot him in the arm.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said, “I am sorry to know about the attack on Deep Rai, a US national of Indian-origin. I have spoken to Sardar Harpal Singh, father of the victim.”
